To speed up dispatching and delivery of relief goods to Eastern Visayas, repacking activities in the hubs in the Samar and Leyte provinces will be beefed up, according to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

To date, there are relief repacking centers in Tacloban City, Leyte and Catbalogan City, Samar. Another repacking site is being set up in Isabel, Leyte. Hubs in Guiuan, Eastern Samar and Ormoc City, Leyte will operate as drop-off points of packed goods.

The Department will send additional personnel to reinforce existing manpower in these hubs from the neighbouring DSWD Field Offices and the Central Office.

Meanwhile, the repacking centers at the National Resource Operations Center (NROC), the Villamor Airbase in Pasay City, the Cargohaus in Parañaque City, and at Mactan Airbase in Cebu City will be discontinued. Volunteer activities in these hubs will end tomorrow, November 30 (Saturday), at  6 pm.

The processing of evacuees arriving in Metro Manila will continue at the Villamor Airbase. Only the repacking will be stopped.

DSWD thanks all volunteers who went to NROC and other relief hubs to help in the repacking. ###